Seniors Boasting About Their Pre-AI Coding Skills

Junior devs getting bullied by the entire programming ecosystem until ChatGPT comes along like "Hey buddy, let me help you with that regex. No question is too stupid, I promise." The real programming revolution wasn't better frameworks or faster computers—it was finally having someone who doesn't make you feel like garbage for not knowing what a monad is.

The ultimate programming paradox exposed! First frame accuses programmers of not being able to write code without stealing someone else's. Then ChatGPT smugly asks "CAN YOU?" only to be met with a devastating realization in the final frame—neither can AI. The irony is chef's kiss perfect. ChatGPT was literally trained on other people's code from GitHub repos, Stack Overflow answers, and documentation. It's like being called out for plagiarism by someone who memorized the entire library. The circle of theft is now complete!

The CEO of OpenAI just casually confirming they're burning millions of dollars processing our unnecessary politeness to chatbots. Meanwhile, developers everywhere are optimizing code to save 3KB of memory. The irony is delicious - we're teaching AI manners while it silently judges our inefficient prompts. Next time you thank ChatGPT, remember you're basically throwing Sam Altman's money into a digital furnace... and he's totally cool with it.

This meme perfectly captures the duality of AI usage in tech. At the top, we see "normal people" using ChatGPT for sensible things like getting help with writing or homework. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the true essence of tech culture: sleep-deprived IT professionals at 3 AM forcing multiple AI models to do manual labor in a cotton field. Because nothing says "I'm a programmer" quite like staying up until ungodly hours to make AI tools do increasingly bizarre and questionable tasks instead of, you know, sleeping like a functional human being. The desperate creativity that emerges at 3 AM is a universal programmer experience that no amount of caffeine can explain.

That moment when it hits you—your entire coding career has been reduced to "vibes" since ChatGPT arrived. No more grinding through Stack Overflow at 3 AM; now it's just "Hey AI, fix this mess" and hoping for the best. Your carefully cultivated programming skills? Just expensive intuition for prompting. Your CS degree? Just fancy paper to frame next to your "I used to write my own code" participation trophy.

Staring into the void waiting for that </button> to magically appear while your AI coding assistant just sits there like "I've done my part." That feeling when you've gone from manually closing your own HTML tags like a caveman to becoming completely dependent on technology that suddenly decides to ghost you. We've evolved from writing our own code to watching a cursor blink, silently judging our life choices. The modern developer experience: 50% coding, 50% waiting for machines to finish what they started.